I installed my printers today. I couldn't do it through VASM. It said CUPS was not installed or something like that. I did have the CUPS service running. Then I ran Firefox as root and installed the printers through http://localhost:631, No problems with that and the printers are working fine.

Still no way to install LILO to a floppy. I booted into my VL6 SOHO RC2.8 and tried to modify LILO to list VL7, but LILO didn't list VL7 as an option. I noticed that there is no /tamu subdirectory in VL7 nor a vmlinuz link. I boot to VL7 with the installation CD.

I tried sane-find-scanner but it complained about a missing library. I didn't pursue it.--GrannyGeek

Might I suggest you roll out a 64b edition parallel to the 32b... that way they can both grow simultaneously

Thank you! The only real reason I'm not running Vector Linux nowadays was that I really, truly needed 64-bit and a release never materialized. I'm using SalixOS, which I like, but I felt a connection to the Vector Linux community and made some friends here. 64-bit would bring me back into the fold, so to speak

Couple things came up while packaging on the new alpha.I finished packaging Lives and noticed vl7.0 is using sox version 14.2.0, this version dates back to 2008. 14.3.1 is the newest sox available, would it be possible to go to that. Also there is something called sox_fmt_all, that Lives asks for when sox is chosen for sound. I can't find a source to build that myself or documentation stating whether it is a configure option at build time. Or perhaps it is only an option on the new sox versions. If posible perhaps this mysterious 'sox_fmt_all' could also be worked in.

14.3.1 is the newest sox available, would it be possible to go to that.

Yep did that too seems sox picks up a lot of extras on the system now so your request should work.Just a note as a test I built most all of gnome just to see how vl7 held up with the exception of one package (gtkspell) everything built without issue. So I think its solid and good starting point !!!!

Just a note as a test I built most all of gnome just to see how vl7 held up with the exception of one package (gtkspell) everything built without issue. So I think its solid and good starting point !!!!

Cheers,Vec

Same experience here. I've been building the dependencies for the multimedia bonus disk. The following have build successfully.

The most trouble I've had is with libpng patches, which I'm now getting pretty good at. However, the following have are still giving me trouble and will not build. I'm assuming they related to the new libpng or libjpeg or maybe even libtool. I'll have to investigate a little more.